Top Software Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Design and implement autonomy, behavior coordination, planning, safety, simulation, evaluation, and data pipelines for industrial humanoid robots. Integrate manipulation, navigation, perception, teleoperation, monitoring, and shutdown capabilities. Develop reactive and explainable autonomous behaviors using classical control and learned policies, validate deployments in digital twins, curate data, and generate synthetic training data for world models.

Develop web and database applications, APIs, and software features supporting NASA spacecraft data models and flight software data production. Responsibilities include testing, troubleshooting data discrepancies, collaborating with customers and developers, prioritizing features, managing schedules, and supporting demonstrations. The role requires full-stack development experience with C#, XML, SQL, and web services, along with strong communication, organization, and teamwork skills.

Own and improve Hex’s production infrastructure across cloud computing, networking, databases, CI/CD, observability, security, and single-tenant environments. Projects may include Kubernetes and AWS operations, infrastructure automation, PostgreSQL scaling, deployment systems, cost optimization, workload isolation, and customer-facing connectivity features. The role requires end-to-end ownership, on-call participation, technical writing, and the ability to turn ambiguous infrastructure problems into shippable solutions.

The Founding Engineer will lead the development of Sailor Health's AI-powered platform, building systems for patient care and mentor the engineering team.

Lead the technical direction for Deepgram’s Console team, architecting developer-facing products including Console, Playground, account management, billing, analytics, and AI tooling. Build full-stack features, guide large cross-functional projects, drive self-serve growth infrastructure, mentor engineers, establish technical standards, and partner with senior leaders on strategy, prioritization, and product-led growth.

Lead development of resilient, scalable features across Toast’s POS, backend, and frontend systems for sports, entertainment, and hospitality customers. Design, deploy, and maintain production services; lead complex reliability projects; collaborate with Product, Design, Sales, Customer Success, and other teams; build automated tests; monitor feature rollouts; and mentor engineers. The role also encourages using AI tools to improve development productivity.

Lead the development of an AI-powered platform for senior mental health, building systems for patient experience, and mentoring the engineering team.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for technical strategy, architecture, and development of web and mobile authentication experiences. Leads major technical initiatives, partners with product, design, and analytics, improves reliability and operational readiness, establishes engineering standards, and mentors team members. Requires extensive experience building web applications with React or Vue, proficiency in JavaScript or TypeScript, strong system architecture and communication skills, and a related degree or equivalent experience.

Build the core AI platform for an AI-native trading experience. Develop a high-performance Rust backend supporting streaming responses, low-latency tool execution, caching, and model orchestration. Design secure, observable APIs and runtime components with authentication, authorization, rate limiting, auditing, tracing, retries, and fallbacks. Build safe trading action infrastructure with deterministic previews, confirmations, idempotency, and audit logs while partnering with product and frontend teams.

Build and scale mission-critical tips, earnings, and payroll platforms for restaurant employees. Own systems end to end, lead complex projects from design through deployment, improve reliability and correctness, collaborate with product and design, review code, mentor engineers, and deliver scalable backend services that affect employee pay and product revenue.

Own and improve Hex’s cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, databases, security, cost management, and single-tenant deployment systems. The role involves selecting and delivering infrastructure projects, operating Kubernetes and AWS environments, scaling PostgreSQL, implementing infrastructure as code, and building customer-facing platform capabilities. Engineers are expected to handle on-call responsibilities, write application code when needed, and independently turn ambiguous infrastructure problems into shippable solutions.

Own and deliver goals for ML training and serving infrastructure. Lead engineers through ambiguous, distributed-systems challenges; design, develop, and operate highly available backend platforms; monitor reliability and support on-call operations. Collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders, improve code and design standards, identify and resolve technical issues, and mentor team members. The role focuses on scalable systems that enable production model training and serving.

Own and deliver quarterly engineering goals for Affirm’s ML Feature Platform. Design, develop, and launch scalable backend systems, lead engineers through ambiguous problems, collaborate with product and design stakeholders, improve platform reliability and availability, support on-call operations, establish quality standards, and mentor team members. The role focuses on highly available distributed systems supporting machine learning feature creation, storage, serving, and offline backfilling.

Build testing tools, frameworks, metrics, and standards for Cedar’s engineering teams. Improve test-suite reliability, speed, coverage, service-to-service testing, and CI/CD integration. Establish testing best practices, connect tests to product behavior, and lead quality-improvement projects from investigation through adoption. The role requires strong software development and testing expertise in Python and JavaScript/TypeScript, with experience using modern testing frameworks and measuring test performance and reliability.

Provides technical oversight, certification, and program integration for spacecraft rendezvous, proximity operations, and capture systems supporting ISS missions. Reviews GN&C requirements, safety evidence, trajectory analyses, simulations, and visiting vehicle performance. Identifies solutions to GN&C issues, supports flight rules and mission plans, communicates compliance status, and provides real-time mission console support. Requires aerospace engineering expertise, orbital mechanics, GN&C principles, spacecraft systems analysis, and software development experience.

Leads development of secure, scalable Java full-stack software for a digital identity team. Designs, codes, tests, troubleshoots, and reviews production applications; improves resiliency and automation; promotes responsible AI-assisted engineering practices; and evaluates vendor and architectural solutions. Requires cloud-native experience with AWS and Kubernetes, REST API development, agile delivery, security, and CI/CD. Familiarity with IAM technologies and ForgeRock or Ping Identity is preferred.

Design, build, and operate highly available, secure, large-scale cloud services and infrastructure. The role focuses on performance optimization across infrastructure, databases, and APIs; establishing engineering standards; shaping technical direction with Product; and mentoring engineers. The team uses Kotlin, Go, AWS, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Terraform, and Apache Pulsar to support distributed, event-driven systems processing billions of requests daily.

Design and deliver Android system applications for Toast POS devices, including device policy enforcement, setup, firmware and app updates, background services, and fleet deployment. Lead technical design, cross-functional planning, Android and hardware upgrades, automated testing, production issue investigations, and staged rollouts. Mentor engineers and collaborate with product, hardware, QA, and software teams to build secure, reliable device-management systems.

Lead the technical direction for Babylist’s new search team, building an in-house search platform from scratch. Own indexing, retrieval, ranking, query understanding, personalization, relevance measurement, conversational search, and integration with recommendations and AI. Drive architecture, product decisions, cross-team initiatives, production delivery, platform adoption, and search quality improvements while coaching senior engineers and partnering with product, design, and data.

Provides technical leadership on complex, high-impact engineering projects from design through launch. The role involves architecture, company-wide initiatives, engineering excellence, mentoring technical leaders, and establishing standards for scalable, reliable, secure, observable systems. The engineer will collaborate across teams, communicate complex technical topics, and apply customer-focused decision-making and A/B testing techniques.

Build and ship backend features end-to-end using Ruby on Rails and SQL. Lead complex technical projects, solve architecture challenges, establish standards, conduct meaningful code reviews, resolve high-risk bugs, document systems, collaborate across engineering teams, and mentor junior engineers.

Lead architecture and hands-on development of a scalable fraud and payment risk platform. Build backend services, APIs, feature pipelines, configurable rules, experimentation infrastructure, and machine-learning lifecycle tooling. Own reliability, observability, monitoring, performance, and safe production deployments. Collaborate with product, risk policy, data science, and engineering teams while mentoring engineers and driving complex initiatives from design through production.

Build full-stack geospatial applications and platform components for defense and intelligence users. Develop interactive mapping tools with TypeScript, React, Tailwind, Node.js, and PostgreSQL; design reusable map components; ingest, analyze, and visualize high-volume geospatial data; integrate agentic AI analyses; and collaborate with customers, mission owners, designers, and engineers to create intuitive operational workflows.

Lead full-stack engineering for Rula’s patient portal, designing scalable, secure, and reliable systems across scheduling, billing, communications, and treatment planning. Own technical direction, architecture, complex initiatives, and long-term improvements while mentoring engineers and collaborating cross-functionally. Build and operate solutions using React, TypeScript, Node.js, microservices or event-based architectures, Kafka, and AWS. Participate in on-call support and troubleshoot production issues.

Architects, builds, and operates resilient backend services, cloud infrastructure, automation tools, and self-service interfaces supporting MDR and incident response operations. Partners with security practitioners and engineering teams to translate operational needs into scalable solutions, establish CI/CD and observability practices, improve reliability, and integrate AI-driven workflows. The role also provides technical mentorship, leads architecture and design decisions, and drives complex initiatives through iterative delivery.